learning Quotes

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.